[LucyT]

Now that I am slowly recuperating from withdrawal of the long-thread syndrome

I think we all were suffering withdrawal!

[Chief Engineer]

Love the cartoon, it’s oh so true!
The following is an AP story that appeared in a Kansas paper, with interviews with Toot’s brothers and sister, including the crazy uncle who stayed in the attic after WWII. Ironic that he worked at the University of Chicago library for so many years and yet Obama didn’t know he lived there.(or maybe it was because he is the wrong color? sarcasm intended)

http://www.thekansan.com/news/x1311851415/-Toot-Obama-grandmother-a-force-that-shaped-him